Réponse à la critique publiée par M. Guillet, sur le Voyage de Grèce de Iacob Spon. Avec quatre lettres sur le mesme sujet, le Iournal d'Angleterre du sieur Vernon, & la liste des erreurs commises par M. Guillet dans son Athènes ancienne & nouvelle

Very rare first edition. 

Some light foxing.

Contemporary 19th-century modest half-grained cloth binding, spine faded, marbled paper boards with surface abrasions, yellow endpapers and pastedowns, marbled edges. 

Sole edition, uncommon, of this vindication by Jacob Spon (1647-1685) concerning his major travel account of the Levant (Voyage d'Italie, de Dalmatie, de Grèce et du Levant, fait aux années 1675 & 1676), published in 1678.

Georges Guillet de Saint-Georges (1624 or 1625-1705) had a little earlier (1675) produced a description of the contemporary state of the city and monuments of Athens, which Spon disputed in his own narrative, even going so far as to question whether Guillet had ever travelled in Greece at all. Hence a quarrel of the kind scholars delight in: sharp, and somewhat futile.

Bookplate of a Greek educational institution affixed to a pastedown.